Beder Camacho refuses to leave the Government Palace and claims to have the backing of Pedro Castillo

A new crisis is looming in the interior of the Government Palace in the face of the 'rebelliousness' of Beder Camacho, the Deputy Secretary General of the Presidential Office, who refuses to make his post available at the request of the new Secretary General Jorge Alva.

For Camacho, Alva's memorandum, asking him and 15 other officials to make their positions available, is invalid and that his position was appointed by President Pedro Castillo and that you have all your confidence.

“We are appointed by the president, not the secretary general,” Camacho told El Comercio.

“When there is a new secretary general, all ministries do the same,” he added, saying that he is “working hand in hand” with his superior and that he has not insisted on the issue because “it was a format for everyone.”

Beder Camacho further argued that “if I have not made any mistake, why am I going to resign from office”, despite the fact that he is under investigation into the alleged crime of criminal organization, following allegations about the existence of a shadow Cabinet.

Other officials who received multiple memorandum 004-2022-DP/SG, dated March 16, are: Rodolfo Idrogo Mejía, director of strategic communication and institutional image and responsible for the Secretariat of Communication and Press; Rodolfo Ramírez Apolinario, Secretary of the Council of Ministers; Jorge Enrique Gamarra Mendoza, director (e) of the Telecommunications Office, among others.

He is also asked to make his post available to Brigadier General Willy Bueno Balvín, as head of the Military House, and Irma Rojas Regalado, director of the President's Spouse Support Office.

Also included are Arturo Arciniega Calderón, director (e) of the Protocol Office; Jorge Gamarra Mendoza, director of the General Office of Administration, among others.

Alva Coronado asked in the document that they should send them the letters of resignation until the day they were issued “at the latest”

PRESIDENT IN SILENCE

This new confrontation between officials inside the Government Palace would be one of many that have occurred since Pedro Castillo assumed the presidency of the Republic.

In November 2021, Bruno Pacheco had to resign from complaints for interfering in military promotions and pressures on the head of Sunat, so Castillo Terrones summoned Carlos Jaico, who after a few months left the Government Palace amid denunciations of the alleged 'Shadow Cabinet' that the president had and who he paid all his attention to these officials rather than to his own ministers.

Even Mirtha Vasquez, Pedro Francke, Hernando Ceballos and other former ministers of state came out to denounce that Castillo was in limbo by not talking to their ministers before making decisions for the good of the country.

Likewise, Beder Camacho remains the person he most trusts as president, so he is in a position of rebellion, generating a first confrontation between the general secretariat of Palacio and the President of the Republic himself.

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